US sentences Kyrgyzstan national for conspiracy to violate US firearms export controls

23 January 2026

US sentences Kyrgyzstan national for conspiracy to violate US firearms export controlsJim Lambert/Shutterstock.com

A US federal court has sentenced Kyrgyz national Sergei Zharnovnikov to 39 months imprisonment for conspiracy to export American firearms. Mr Zharnovnikov is an arms dealer operating in Kyrgyzstan. Since March 2020, he exported firearms...

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Michael O'Kane

Michael is Senior Partner at Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP. He has acted in many of the most high profile and sensitive business crime cases of the last 25 years, at Peters & Peters and as a prosecutor. Michael was called…

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